November 22, 2011

Selection varies, as the drawings tend to sell rather quickly. Check the shop often, sign up for the shop newsletter and/or follow me on twitter to get the latest updates. (I've been busy with some commissions and upcoming exhibitions, so there hasn't been much in the online shop. I hope to remedy that very soon)

Not many of these left, so get one or two while you can. Most online booksellers are out of stock, but The Book Depository has it, and they ship for free internationally. Find out more about the book, or just buy in here.

I get asked for iPhone skins on a regular basis, so I finally set up shop on Society6. They do iPod and iPhone skins and cases, as well as prints. I'll get to their prints in a moment...

Framed prints, large prints

I've been wanting to offer larger prints, and framed ones as well, and now they're here. For example, you can now get a 28 x 34 inch print of Beard Octopus. That's a pretty big beard/octopus. You can also get nice looking framed prints too, like the ones below. Shop for (unsigned) prints, framed and unframed. (they do stretched canvases too! I know, it's all quite overwhelming.)

MiniCards from Moo.com - they're like little calling cards. They're smaller than a business card, so they stand out in their own little way. Get a set customized with your own contact information from the US or UK sites.

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Well that's it. Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to produce in the comments below, or send me an email. I'm always open to suggestions.

I used to be against the idea of offering merch with my drawings on it. I just didn't want it to become my focus, and end up makng drawings specifically for t-shirts and such. But I soon realized that for many, it's a preferred, and possibly intimate way of bringing art into one's life.

November 21, 2011

Like the last collage piece, the wallpaper background portion is an ink and watercolour pattern I created and cut out. Again I'm playing with the idea of the background taking over, enveloping the person. It's a portrait of a man, yet he seems lost in his own portrait. The fact that the wallpaper portion is made on thick paper helps a bit to emphasize this. Have a look at the closeups in the shop.

November 18, 2011

The wallpaper portion is an ink and watercolour pattern I created and cut out. Normally you would cut out the character and place him on top of the wallpaper, but I wanted to play with the idea of the background taking over, enveloping the person. The fact that the wallpaper portion is made on thick paper really emphasizes this. It's a bit hard to see it here; it's more evident when you see it in person (the internet can't replace everything). Or have a look at the closeups in the shop.

Aurelie's story: "I live in Copenhagen right now, where everyone is tattooed, so I wanted to make one to keep as a souvenir of this great city. I fell in love with your drawings two days before tattooing, so I suddenly changed my mind to do this one."

Terrific. Thanks for sharing your story, Aurelie!

See more tattoos. If you've got a tattoo of one of my drawings, send it along! Email me at marcjohns [at] gmail [dot] com.

November 14, 2011

I cut up a defective print of What to focus on to make the fellow's red suit. (What to focus on is one of my all-time most popular prints, so I go through lots of them. I am super picky about quality, and sometimes there are little defects in the paper, so I throw those ones out, or in this case, recycle it into a collage). It feels odd repurposing my own artwork.

Anna's story: She had the tattoo done as part of a farewell tour of Milwaukee, where she just graduated, and was about to move to Columbus to work on her PhD.

"For me, tattoos are about art and don't need to have some deep, dark meaning associated with them. BUT.... (when being pestered by people asking what the tattoo means) ... I suppose the theme of the drawing nicely coincides with my main attitude toward life. That is, I think that life is about 90% perception, 10% reality, or more simply, that life's what you make it."

"I'm so excited to share my tattoo with you and think it's SO cool that you're so open to allowing others to incorporate your artwork on their bodies and into their lives - your posting of stuff like this on your blog, I think, really helps to encourage this open atmosphere, in terms of the sharing and proliferation of your artwork."

Awesome. Thanks for sharing your story, Anna!

See more tattoos. If you've got a tattoo of one of my drawings, send it along! Email me at marcjohns [at] gmail [dot] com.

November 07, 2011

I did this drawing for National Geographic, for a little article about a koi fish named Hanako that was reportedly over 200 years old. Now that I look at it, he sort of looks like Mordechai Richler. The drawing is small, but I'm super excited about it anyway. Oh, and don't tell anyone, but I've got another drawing in an upcoming issue that's going to be LARGE.

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Marc Johns makes drawings and puts them on this blog, and sometimes he makes them for people like National Geographic, Google, Wired, Newsweek, Tommy Hilfiger, and Harper Collins. He has a book called I MADE THESE DRAWINGS FOR YOU. Many of his fans have tattoos of his drawings.

He lives with his wife Kristen, two sons, and his drawer full of pens in Victoria, BC, Canada. Marc also finds it strange to talk about himself in the third person.Read more

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